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This Slav upheaval in south-eastern Europe is becoming a serious menace. Have you seen to-day's telegrams from Agram? They are bad reading. There is no computing the extent of this movement." "It is directed against us," said the banker. "Agreed," said the Grafin; "it is in the nature of things that it must be against us. Let us have no illusions.
"... I never expected to find the Frau Gräfin so gracious.... I had never hoped that the Frau Gräfin would be willing to do so much for me ... the Frau Gräfin has made me very happy." Clubfoot stood on the threshold and listened to my halting speech. "You can bring your things in when you come to-morrow ..." Monica said. "The keeper will tell you what time you must be here."
The next important figure on the list was the Countess Babette de Keglevics, afterward Princess Odeschalchi, to whom Beethoven showed his feelings in the shape of the Sonata, Opus 7. The Baroness Ertmann he addressed as "Liebe, werthe, Dorothea Cecilia," while the Countess Erdödy received the still warmer greeting of "Liebe, liebe, liebe, liebe Gräfin."
He has been in Majestat's thoughts for years." "I expect he has," I said; for Kloster has often told me how they hated him at court, him and his friends, but that he was too well known all over the world for them to be able to interfere with him; something like, I expect, Tolstoi and the Russian court. The Grafin looked at me quickly. "And so has Majestat been in his," I continued.
"Your father can be managed, little as he suspects it. I'll find the weak spot in each of the suitors he brings to the house and set him against all of them." "And my voice?" asked Lili timidly. But the Frau Gräfin shook her head. "There I cannot help you. He thinks an artistic career would disgrace his family, and that is the end of it.
"You," said the Grafin, touching Desiree's arm with her fan, "you, who are now his wife, must be dying to know what has called him away. Do not consider the 'convenances, my child." Desiree, thus admonished, followed Charles. She had not been aware of this consuming curiosity until it was suggested to her. She found Charles standing at the open door.
"Frau Gräfin," I said in German, still in that hideous patois, "you must be calm." And I whispered in English in her ear: "Monica, be brave! And talk German whatever you do." She regained her self-possession at once. "I understand," she answered, sitting down at her desk again; "it is more prudent." And for the rest of the time we spoke in German. "Desmond?" I asked.
'And afterwards, when you got older, Grafin, interrupted Daddy, who wished his cousin to hear the details of the extraordinary coincidence, 'you elaborated your idea 'Yes, that thought and yearning always fulfil themselves somewhere, somehow, sooner or later, she continued.
"Without all controversy, here was a VOCATIO DIVINA, to be received with the most submissive thanks! Kettenbeil began again: 'He must mention to me SUB ROSA, Her Ladyship the Frau Grafin wanted to have her Lady's-maid provided for by this promotion, too; I must marry her, and take the living at the same time." Whew! And this is the noble Lady's way of thinking, up in her fine Schloss yonder?
"Dear child," said the Grafin gently, "we Germans do not permit our great to go unhonoured." "But he would never " I began; then remembered my lesson yesterday and his silence. So that's what it was. He already had his command to attend at the palace and be decorated in his pocket. I sat staring straight before me. Kloster bought? Kloster for sale?
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